Ios iphone see recently downloaded apps

More Button Icon Circle with three vertical dots. It indicates a way to see more nav menu items inside the site menu by triggering the side menu to open and close. Meira Gebel. You can see all the apps you've ever downloaded on your iPhone right in your phone's App Store. However, your App Store will only keep track of the apps you've downloaded with the Apple ID you're currently logged into.

This means you'll also see apps you downloaded on other iPhones with the same Apple ID. If you want to see apps you downloaded on other Apple ID accounts, you'll need to log into them. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Meira Gebel is a freelance reporter based in Portland, Oregon. She writes about business, culture, and technology for Insider. Feel free to reach out to her on Twitter, where she can be found most of the time, MeiraGebel.

Insider Inc. Additional comments. It might be quicker to just type the name of the app in the App Store search bar and find the app this way. The store, of course, remembers your purchases and the process is pretty similar to the one described above. Hit the magnifier icon at the bottom right in the App Store, type the name, and select the app from the results. Unfortunately, you cannot. In that case, click on your iPhone, choose Apps, and click Install next to the ones you want to use again.

On the other hand, you can use the Restore from Backup feature on any version of iTunes. However, this might be too much just to get a few apps. As of iOS All of the offloaded apps can be reinstalled via the App Store. The good news is that you can make iOS set things back to normal.

Apple doesn't have iOS set to hide new apps from your home screen by default. It's something you have to activate yourself. So when you first update to iOS 14, newly downloaded apps still appear on your home screen as they always have. Now, if that's not what's happening, and you didn't go into the home screen preferences and change that one setting, you likely did something else that triggered it.

If you don't remember changing the setting yourself, you likely hid at least one page full of apps from your home screen. Doing just that automatically tells iOS to add new app installs to your App Library, bypassing your home screen entirely.